attendants
Example Sentences
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“When Susanne and I got the job as intendants, we asked ourselves, ‘Where can we really improve?’
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022
Unlike past intendants, however, Mr. Schulz will not stage operas for the company, which has just moved back to its historic home following a seven-year renovation.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2018
In contrast, he increased the power of the government agents called intendants, who collected taxes and administered justice.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
It also took them from their homes, thereby giving more power to the intendants.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Thirty intendants ruled France; and the modern system with its prefects is merely a slight modification devised by Napoleon on the great centralizing and administrative scheme of the Bourbon monarchy.
From The French Revolution A Short History by Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson)
